"I'm back!" The booming deep voice came echoing from the direction of the front door.
MacKenzie and I both practically jumped out of our respective skins.
I stood and turned to see David walking in to my living room. ""Wow! I thought you wouldn't be back until later this evening. Needless to say you took us both by surprise. Still feel my heart fluttering."
"Oh hell, Reese," Mac teased, "that's not because of being surprised half to death. That's because your hunky boy toy is back." She swatted my denim covered butt.
"Well, should I go and come back later?" David, my new found young lover asked.
"No!" I responded way too quickly and loudly. I tried to calm myself inside. "I mean, no, its fine. I was just being silly." I somewhat regained my more mature posture. Indeed I was the more mature one in the room, at least by age, David being twenty-one and a college senior and my girlfriend MacKenzie in her mid-thirties. They may have been acting more mature than me, the almost forty-two year old, at the moment.
"Come on over here David," Mac patted the empty cushion next to her on the couch where I had been sitting. "Come tell us abut your sweaty manly day at wrestling practice. Oh wait, you need to take that shower you were going to take when you got back? I know you enjoyed that shower with us this morning."
"Naw, I actually forgot I was going to wait and take one here again. I took one at the school gym like I always do right after a practice. Sorry." David spoke almost bashfully and shrugged his shoulders.
"Sorry! You ought to be sorry, young man. You've deprived us old women of another peek at your naked body." Mac fell back into the couch and feigned a disappointed swoon by putting the back of her hand to her forehead, "But thoughts of all those male bodies in the showers at the same time. Oh my, my. What a fantasy for a woman of our ages, huh Ree?"
"Speak for yourself, you horny broad." I rebutted. "I only need one naked male body to satisfy my fantasies." The words came out before I could think about them. I found myself staring right up at David, into those gorgeous eyes. He continued to stare back at me in silence.
"Hmmm, I see," I heard Mac's voice but continued to stare at the young man before us. "Well, I don't know about you two, but I'm hungry. How about a pizza and beer? What do you think David, pizza and beer sound good? Oh, I forgot that is a staple diet for guys that live in a college dorm, isn't it?"
I knew I heard Mac rambling, but I could only focus on David and his face, his handsome face, and that sexy grin that was forming on his sexy lips.
Then he blinked. I blinked. We came back to this world.
"Uh, yea, I mean..." David stammered. "Sure. Pizza sounds good. I never actually drank a lot of beer, what with needing to make weight for wrestling. But I could make an exception this evening." His eyes never left mine.
"Ree, where are your numbers for the pizza places around here?" I heard Mac's voice just as I was drifting off into those dreamy eyes of this young man again.
But she caught me in time, as I felt a slap against my forearm. "Reese?"
"Huh? What?" I stammered myself now.
"The pizza places, phone numbers?"
"Oh, yea, they're in the kitchen on the desk by the phone."
*****
We sat down in the living room around the coffee table to dinner. The conversation went from simple summer weather to school and our favorite foods.
"Of course I like a good steak," David said, "but I like my salads, too. In the last year or so I've even come to like Caesar salad."
"Mmm, yea, I love a Caesar, and I like to add a grilled chicken breast." I added.
"Oh, Reese, you shouldn't have said that." Mac chimed in.
"What?" I asked, honestly wondering what she meant.
"No, dear," she said, and put her hand to her face blocking her lips from David's view and whispered, "You said 'breast'. You know your boyfriend here can't keep that bad boy in those pants of his as it is. He doesn't need any more stimulation. Then you go and talk about breasts." She winked. Of course, too, the whisper was intentionally plenty loud enough for David to hear.
"I resemble that remark." David put in his own quip just before he took another bite of pizza.
"Honestly, David, I've never seen a guy be able to keep it up and as active as you." Mac commented as she reached across in front of him for another slice of pizza. Not unintentionally I'm sure her right boob brushed across his knee. She sat back up and before the point of the triangle slice made it to her open mouth, she added, "I know you are only twenty-one but I remember my ex-husband at that age and he was never that virile."
I stared hard at Mac and she looked back at me over the slice her eyes wide and a slight shrug of her shoulders. She knew what she was doing. I gave her an evil look back.
But it was David that turned the subject back on her. "Speaking of your ex-husband Mac, if you don't mind me asking, how long were you guys together?"
"I married him when I was twenty-four." Mac initially answered, took a bite then continued on with a dab of tomato sauce hanging at the corner of her mouth. "He was a young hotshot lawyer, destined to be a partner in the firm. So I admit I originally dated him for status and he later admitted he dated me for only the great sex." Mac slinked her tongue out and licked at the red sauce on her lips. Damn, if she could only stop being sexy even eating. "Throughout all of our sexually playful years, we knew we would eventually not stay with one another. So when I turned thirty we discontinued our playing ways."
"Oh, I'm sorry." David replied, I could tell he was sincere from the almost concerned look on his face.
"Oh, don't be. He was completely focused and deeply involved in advancing his career." Mac again went on. "So it was almost three years before I was ready to date again. But after almost a year of disastrous liaisons I gave up on all men. At the same time I knew I did need a little more in my life than being a hopefully a good parent."
"Mac, you are a wonderful parent." I now added my two cents worth. "She has the most wonderfully behaved children, David. And they are a teacher's dream, too. Both so smart and they love to read."
"So you two met at school I understand." David said.
"Yes, and Reese was also the sexiest of my children's teachers I had ever met. Man or woman. Reese was so bright and professional. I remember when she and I sat down at the first PTA meeting. We sat down and talked about my Jimmy."
"Jimmy is such a handsome little boy." I added.